The University of Sharjah hosted an astrolabe workshop in which western scientists showed participants how an astronomical instrument made by an ancient Muslim scholar nearly 1,000 years ago measured ...

A remarkable astrolabe showing academic collaboration between Muslims and Jews in 11th-century Spain has been fortuitously uncovered by a Cambridge University history lecturer. The discovery came last ...

The bronze astrolabe, originating from the 9th and 10th century Baghdad, forms part of the Sotheby’s ‘Arts of the Islamic World and India’ sale in London. In the marvellous halls of Sotheby's, London, ...

In 1603, Shahzada Salim, the future Badshah Jahangir, commissioned a curious portrait. In it, his grandfather, the second Mughal Badshah Humayun, kneels on a richly patterned blue carpet, reading a ...

Doha: Man’s utter fascination with stars dates back to time immemorial; he devised ways in his pursuit to unravel their mystery and answer age-old questions with regard to the celestial bodies. This ...

AMSTERDAM – A rare 16th-century scientific artifact used in astronomical measurements that has been missing from a Swedish museum for a decade has been recovered and will be returned this week, the ...

A medieval astrolabe found buried in the ground has been saved for the nation thanks to a £350,000 purchase by the British Museum. The Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant is one of only eight instruments of ...

AMSTERDAM—A rare 16th-century scientific instrument used by early astronomers that has been missing from a Swedish museum for around a decade has been recovered and will be returned this week, the ...